Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

There’s an interesting interview over at CertCities.com, where Jim Dilanni, Oracle’s Director Of Certification, gives some background on the program’s changes over the past year, and discusses some of the changes we’re likely to see in the future. Particularly interesting is the number of certifications at present (203000, with growth mainly in China and India), [...]

"Contrary to the pontifications of theoreticians and ivory-tower academics, there are many silver bullets for Oracle performance tuning. By silver bullet, I mean a small set of commands that quickly relieves an acute performance bottleneck. Some of these techniques of just-in-time tuning have been codified in Oracle10g with the Automatic Memory Management (AMM) facility, in [...]

Don Burleson offers some useful guidelines on what to ask of third-party application vendors whose applications run on the Oracle platform. Don’s advice? "If you are the victim of a shoddy Oracle vendor implementation, insist on your right to be provided with complete and accurate Oracle documentation. Remember, it’s your vendor’s responsibility to provide you [...]

“Using a firewall to protect a server, and not just a database server, is not a new concept and has been around for a while. However, a firewall may be overkill in some cases. Even if a firewall is desirable, it may still have to be configured and deployed properly. The complexity in administering a [...]

“Hi Mark, I am a technology reporter with washingtonpost.com. I noticed your blog on Oracle. I will be hosting an online interview tomorrow with Matthew Symonds, author of the recently released book “SOFTWAR: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle.” Symonds will field questions about business software company Oracle Corp. and its leader and co-founder. [...]